Zhang Xiaoyu has left the southern mountain range.
While recovering from the injuries caused by Xie Chunxue's sword, he stopped somewhere beside a green mountain stream.
Just last year.
Zhang Xiaoyu stopped here in October last year, but at that time he was washing his face and sword.
Zhang Xiaoyu now naturally has no sword in his hand.
The eyes were no longer visible on his face.
So Zhang Xiaoyu stayed quietly by the stream for a long time.
He took off the tattered scabbard, put it in the stream to wash away the blood and dust, and then placed it in the green bushes aside.
Then he walked towards the stream step by step, taking off his white clothes that were already dirty and somewhat tattered.
After taking off everything, the naked twenty-six-year-old swordsman sat cross-legged in the stream, raised his hand to untie the cloth band around his eyes, and then held it with both hands, closing the hollow The eyes that went down immersed it in the stream.
The white clothes were also on the side, entangled in some water plants, so it seemed to be going downstream, but it was always pulled and stopped there.
It's just that a lot of dirt and blood stains gradually turned red when soaked in the stream, as if someone had painted a painting and accidentally knocked over some cinnabar when finishing the painting, so it looked like the flow of sunset. , gradually disappearing in the clear stream.
The white clothes will be clean.
Sword repairmen can't clean things.
The clearest stream in the world will take them away little by little.
Zhang Xiaoyu soaked himself in the water like a fish.
I clean the sky and the earth and give them back to strangers.
I cleaned myself and my white clothes, waiting for such a junior brother coming from the south.
Zhang Xiaoyu submerged into the stream little by little, no more than his shoulders, no more than his lips and teeth, no more than his words.
Until the whole person was completely submerged in the clear stream, holding the corners of his clothes that were being washed by the world and heading towards the original clean white.
The mountain streams are clear and the spring breeze is clear.
There are many zigzag-like lights that quietly illuminate the underwater sword cultivator and the chaotic water plants.
How will I face you?
Junior brother.
With chaos, with sadness, with cleanliness and warmth.
...
Li Shi carried a bucket of water from the well in the town and washed his face very seriously. Taoists are also human beings, and sometimes there will be dust, flying catkins, and eye mucus on the face.
From time to time, pedestrians from the town walked by and looked at this Taoist who didn't know where he came from.
After quietly washing up, he placed the bucket on the edge of the well and looked up at the sky.
The sky was clear and the spring clouds were rolling in. It was a very comfortable day.
Li Shi looked at it quietly for a long time, then walked a short distance along the long street and bought an umbrella in an umbrella shop with a bleak business.
The Taoist held the umbrella in his arms, then returned to the well, took out a book from his arms, and looked at it quietly.
The book is not generous, it is very thin, probably only a few thousand words.
"Five Thousand Words of the Green Ox".
This Hanguguan Taoist canon, which brings the Dao to the human world, has been taught by Xuansheyuan for thousands of years. Rubbings can be bought everywhere in Huangliang.
Li Shi bought this from Zhentou before.
The name of the town is simply Wuming Town.
If you encounter a town that you don't want to have a name for, you can use such a name.
Similarly, if you meet someone who doesn't want to give a name, you can call them Mei Qu Ming Nan De Qu or Zhang San.
Zhang San held an umbrella and squatted on the street looking at the Taoist sitting on the edge of the well reading a book for a long time.
The weather is sunny, and people with umbrellas are naturally rare. Except for some waiting girls who are worried about tanning their fair and tender faces, they will walk through the streets holding some small and exquisite umbrellas. Most people are Without an umbrella.
So Zhang San was very curious about why this Taoist suddenly wanted to buy an umbrella.
He was watching Taoist Master just now when he was washing his face here.
Until the Taoist bought an umbrella and came back, he started reading.
Zhang San watched for a long time.
I couldn't hold back my curiosity.
He walked forward, sat down next to Li Shi, and asked mysteriously: "Are you also a mushroom?"
Li Shi raised his head and glanced at this small town man, thought for a while, and said, "No."
Zhang San was probably a little disappointed and said: "You are not a mushroom. Why do you need to buy an umbrella when the weather is so nice?"
Li Shi said: "Because it will rain later."
Hearing this, Zhang San looked up at the sky for a long time, then lowered his head and said seriously: "Yes, it's time to rain."
Li Shi looked at the man with raised eyebrows and said, "Why?"
Zhang San said with a smile: "Because if it doesn't rain, I will be dried in the sun. Although some people like to eat dried mushrooms, I think fresh mushrooms are more delicious. The soup is delicious and delicious. You must try it."
The Taoist who claimed to be two feet nine from fate was silent for a while, looked at Zhang San and said, "Who are you?"
Zhang San stopped laughing and said seriously: "Can't you see?"
Li Shi shook his head.
Zhang San laughed again.
"I'm crazy."
Li Shi looked at this man for a long time, and finally remained silent for a long time before saying softly: "No wonder I can't understand what you are trying to do?"
Even if the fortune teller comes, he can't figure out what a lunatic is going to do.
Zhang San was holding an umbrella by the edge of the well, like a happy mushroom with legs shaking its legs.
"The mushrooms in the hot pot are also delicious. Of course, some people may think that the mushrooms are more delicious. They are smooth and tender. They think that such a coquettish bitch like the mushroom is seducing its diners. Do you know what the mushrooms say?"
Li Shi put down the scroll and looked at Zhang San seriously.
"What do you say about mushrooms?"
Zhang San said sincerely: "Mushrooms."
"?"
Zhang San said: "It's just a mushroom. I see you are still reading. Don't you even know the words?"
The man said, jumped down from the edge of the well, picked up a white stone from the ground, and wrote the word "mushroom" on the stone slab in the alley.
"You see, that's what mushrooms are like."
"..."
Li Shi: I feel like I have been living in Zhang San’s shadow.
Zhang San sat back on the edge of the well again, held an umbrella and said with a smile: "So do you like hot pot?"
Li Shi thought carefully for a long time and determined that there should be no other traps, so he nodded sincerely.
Zhang San's eyes lit up, he looked at Li Shi and asked, "Really? Then do you prefer to eat the lid or the bottom of the pot?"
Li Shi smiled and said, "I like to eat pot lids."
Zhang San laughed.
Li Shi looked at him curiously and asked, "Why are you laughing?"
Zhang San said seriously: "I am a lunatic and know that the lid of the pot cannot be eaten. It seems that you are a fool."
"..."
Li Shi fell silent.
Zhang San laughed for a long time, then jumped down from the edge of the well and walked towards the distance.
Li Shi looked at him and asked, "Where are you going?"
"When I go home for dinner, my mother won't let me play with fools."
Li Shi was speechless.
Perhaps the world has never thought that Li Shi, the most outstanding Shanhe Guan among the young generation of Taoists in the world today, would be made to look like a fool by a psychopath named Yaofeng.
Li Shi looked at the umbrella in his arms and thought for a long time.
So do you want to make a mushroom?
Li Shi chuckled softly there and found that he seemed to be led in by the man subconsciously.
The Taoist from Shanhe Temple lowered his head again, opened the Tao scroll in his hand, and looked at it with great concentration.
The spring day in March gradually became gloomy.
A spring rain soon arrived in the town.
The spring rain hit the eaves, and dripped along the green eaves onto the stone slabs in the alley, dripping and dripping.
Li Shi held up an umbrella.
But suddenly I heard a voice.
"Aha, I knew you must be a mushroom too."
Zhang San's voice sounded in the alley again.
Li Shi raised his head and looked at the man who had left and returned. Zhang San walked over from the rain alley holding an umbrella and introduced himself solemnly.
"My name is Zhang San, what's yours?"
This is recognition from the same race.
Li Shi thought for a while and said, "My name is Li Si."
Fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty...
Zhang San sat on the edge of the well.
Only then did Li Shi realize that he had brought a bigger umbrella.
Probably also noticed that Li Shi was looking at his umbrella. Zhang San said sincerely: "Because it rained, the mushrooms grew bigger. This time you have just grown. When it rains again, You need to change to a bigger umbrella.”
Li Shi raised his eyebrows and looked out of the alley.
People in the small town held umbrellas.
"Then there aren't all mushrooms out there?"
Zhang San nodded.
"Of course, when it rains, there will definitely be a lot of mushrooms growing. If you like to eat mushrooms, remember not to eat the ones wearing little white skirts and holding little red umbrellas. Red umbrellas have white poles. , you can just lie down after eating."
Zhang San said, raising the umbrella in his hand an inch higher.
Li Shi understood at this time.
This is another inch taller.
So I also raised the umbrella in my hand a little higher.
Zhang San nodded happily.
"It seems you finally know how to be a mushroom."
While the two were talking there, a man without an umbrella came hurriedly through the alley, probably in a hurry to go home.
Zhang San's expression changed, and he hurriedly pulled Li Shi off the edge of the well, and pulled an unnecessary piece of cloth from the side, covering their heads, and then squatted down around the well.
Li Shi asked sincerely.
"What are you doing?"
Zhang San made a silent gesture.
It wasn't until the man looked at the two of them as if they were fools and ran over that Zhang San said with relief: "You are a mushroom and he is a human being. If you grow so ostentatiously on the edge of the well, you will definitely become his fault." You're in trouble. The greatest achievement of a mushroom is to grow white and fat, hiding under the fallen leaves so that no one can find you and make them angry to death."
Li Shi suddenly realized it and said, "It makes sense."
Zhang San patted Li Shi on the shoulder and said proudly: "Boy, you still have a lot to learn about the survival of mushrooms."
Li Shishen nodded in agreement.
Zhang San continued to say seriously: "Just like the world thinks I am crazy, but in fact I am pretending. I am not crazy or stupid. I just want to hide my identity as a mushroom."
Li Shi squatted there in a daze, looking at the man who was talking eloquently.
So is Zhang San a mushroom or a psycho?
This Taoist from Shanhe Temple was suddenly confused.
The spring rain continues to fall.
Two mushrooms squatted in the alley and stared at each other.
Another person came outside the alley, but because the two mushrooms in the alley were so well hidden, the person seemed not to have seen him and walked quietly in the alley like a horse.
...
Liu Chunfeng and Liu Sanyue walked in the spring rain of February.
Look at the alley quietly.
The alley was clean and empty of anything.
Because of the changes in Huaidu, Huangliang also became a little quiet.
I was afraid that the king who was said to be from the north would behave strangely.
Especially since Yaofeng is located south of Kyoto.
So people in the town could stay at home quietly, and they stayed at home.
So this alley is very peaceful.
There are only some green leaves that have been knocked down by the rain and stick to the stone slabs to catch the rain.
There was a well not far away, and there was a bucket beside the well. It was probably cracked because it had been frozen in the wind and snow for too long.
So it was abandoned by people and replaced with a better and newer barrel next to it.
Liu Sanyue and Liu Chunfeng looked at it for a long time, then walked over with umbrellas in hand, stopped at the well, looked down at the water in it, and then looked at the wooden barrel.
There seemed to be some blood on the edge of the well.
It's also on that barrel.
Other than that, there's nothing out of the ordinary.
Han Chan issued his decree, and the entire Xuanxu Courtyard of Yaofeng started to move.
The two of them followed the information obtained from the investigations in various academies and pursued it all the way.
The last place Li Shi appeared was in this town.
It's just that the two of them searched the entire Wuming Town and couldn't find any trace of such a Taoist.
The two looked at it for a long time, but found nothing useful, so they headed out of the alley again.
When I walked out of the alley, I saw a man squatting on the street watching the spring rain.
Liu Chunfeng stopped, looked at him for a long time, and then laughed. Liu Chunfeng turned to look at Liu Sanyue and asked strangely: "What are you looking at, Master Yin in March?"
Liu Sanyue smiled softly.
"Look at him, does he look like a mushroom?"
As soon as Liu Sanyue finished speaking, the man squatting on the roadside raised his head in horror, looked at the Taoist and said, "How do you know?"
Liu Sanyue raised his eyebrows.
But the man didn't wait for the two of them to react, and ran away on the street holding the umbrella.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a big mushroom running in panic.
Liu Sanyue took a deep breath.
Could he really be a dog?
But whether that person is a mushroom or not, or whether he is a dog, these are unimportant things.
The most important thing for the two of them right now is to find out where the Taoist from the north has gone.
"Is there any news from the Xuanxuyuan Ancestral Courtyard?"
Liu Sanyue ignored the lunatic running away and looked at Liu Chunfeng and asked.
Liu Chunfeng shook his head and said: "The Yaofeng Ancestral Courtyard has naturally been on strict guard, and all the gentlemen from the surrounding Xuanxu Courtyard have rushed to the ancestral home. Even if they are not necessarily Li Shi's opponents, they can at least delay it for a long time. What's more, Qi Jinyuan from Jianyuan is also in the ancestral courtyard, so the people from Jianyuan will naturally help."
Liu Sanyue nodded.
Ever since the Qingxuanxu arm bone was stolen in the ancestral courtyard, there had been a lot of vigilance.
Such a place, to the human world, is naturally just a symbol of the rise of Xuansheyuan.
However, for some people, the skeleton of the scholar who was able to pick up the Sword of Tsing Yi and the original Dao Code is undoubtedly an extremely important thing.
It's big when you say it's big, and it's small when you say it's small, so naturally everything must be thought of in a big way.
The two of them stood quietly in the spring rain on the long street, watching all the changes in the world.
Such a story.
Naturally, it is not the story of Huaian, nor is it the story of Huangliang.
But the whole human story.
So even though Liu Sanyue watched helplessly as he turned into a wild dog that he hated, he still chose to stay.
Just like last March.
When he was in Huaidu, when he left the long street that sunk into the ground, Liu Sanyue saw the servant who was standing there holding a green umbrella and looking at his back for a long time. This Taoist still chose to go to the south. Same as Yicheng.
...
Mei Xiyu opened the courtyard door.
I thought it was the bull head and bench legs that were looking for trouble.
They have already taken out the Chenghusi register.
However, it was discovered that this was not the case.
The bull-headed stool-leg who was keen on finding trouble stood honestly behind a man who looked like a middle-aged butler who looked dignified but had strong charm.
"The harassment by the two demons was due to the lax control of the Siwu Mansion, which brought a lot of trouble to Master Mei."
The great butler stood at the door with a slight smile, looked at Mei Xiyu who had an indifferent expression, and said seriously: "So the Lord Attendant held a banquet in the house and sincerely invited the real person to the banquet to express his apology."
Mei Xiyu quietly looked at the big demon standing at the door, and then at the bull head and bench legs behind him. The two of them huddled there in grievance.
The big butler demon smiled slightly, turned back and glanced at the two demons.
Niutou Benchleg walked forward obediently, probably because he wanted to apologize to Mei Xiyu.
However, the Taoist just calmly raised his hand and looked at the big housekeeper demon and bowed.
"Xi Yu is a guilty person. This behavior is quite inappropriate. I hope you can forgive me."
The bull-headed bench legs turned back to look at the great housekeeper demon.
The latter still smiled slightly and said: "In that case, it is naturally inconvenient to force it. I'm sorry for intruding."
Bullhead bench legs relieved.
He looked up at the sky.
It is still noon time now.
If it were not for the rule of the human world, the two of them would naturally be polite and behave themselves.
However, during the Siwu period, the Siwu guards bowed their heads to a Taoist.
Naturally it is a very troublesome thing.
Not only in Mei Xiyu, but also in Niutou Benchleg duo.
Mei Xiyu is naturally not stupid.
Monsters are everywhere in the human world, and there are always people coming and going on the long street who have noticed what is happening in front of the courtyard.
During the period of the Demon Clan's rule, if Niutou Benchli really apologized to himself, he would naturally be pushing himself into a pit of fire.
Therefore, Mei Xiyu could only refuse, and also interrupted the movements of the two demons.
In today's human world, the relationship between humans and monsters is delicate, and any move is likely to be infinitely magnified.
Although Mei Xiyu doesn't want to get involved in these things.
But now that the matter had come to this, he naturally had no choice but to do anything.
As the three figures gradually left on the long street, everything became peaceful again.
It was as if nothing had happened.
Mei Xiyu looked at it quietly for a long time, and then closed the courtyard door.
